Assignment 3: Montage

 

For my fantastical image I kept with the same theme of the beach, since this is where I got to do my photo shoot for the project. I placed two images of myself, as if standing in the water. I made one of the images myself smaller than the other in order to keep with perspective. Although this is a fantastical image I wanted it to be the type of thing that you have to look twice at in order to realize what you're seeing. I then placed the waves into the image, creating the depth of fantasy. I thought that the birds added a nice touch because the distract the eye and add to the theme of chaos that was already present with the five waves coming in towards the foreground. 

Assignment 3: Montage

 

For my realistic image I chose to depict a simple landscape image based upon my own landscape photo I had taken. When adding the different elements to the image I wanted them simply for the purpose of adding depth, as not to distort what was already there. Having the background landscape as the original image acted as a pattern by which to follow. It created a perspective to work off of in which I knew all of my other images had to match in order to keep it believable. I had to crop out of the photo a road with cars driving past, which in the original image was a nice element, but when put into the collage made it difficult to keep with the perspective and a believable ratio of size of the objects in the image. For the objects in the background I used a layer mask to create a hazy view that allows for a believable change in depth or distance for those objects, while the closer objects I chose to keep the brightest.